I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.